• The deadline for eligible borrowers to request a free foreclosure review has been extended to the end of the year. To learn more, call (888) 952-9105, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern time Monday to Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time Saturday.

Certain people whose primary homes were in the foreclosure process in 2009 or 2010 can request an independent audit. Homeowners could get compensation or other remedies if reviewers discover any financial harm caused by one of the 14 participating lenders, including Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

Last Sunday’s full-page ad in Parade detailed who’s eligible for a foreclosure review and how one would go about getting one. Problem is, the listed deadline is wrong. Borrowers have until Dec. 31 to submit a request, not Sept. 30, as the ad stated. The same ad appears to have run in other publications, too.

Federal regulators have changed the deadline a total of three times to allow borrowers more time to get in their requests. The third extension, more than two weeks before the Parade ad appeared, shifted the deadline from Sept. 30 to the end of the year.

The Federal Reserve Board, one of the monitors of the foreclosure review process, declined to comment on the outdated information and deferred questions to the other oversight agency, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

OCC spokesman Bryan Hubbard said the ads were placed before the deadline change, and it was too late to pull them. The ad ran “in a variety of papers,” Hubbard added. He was unable to provide a list of those publications.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency required the 14 mortgage servicers to buy ads in national publications such as Parade to educate borrowers on the foreclosure review process.

The first round of ads ran during the first two months of the year, followed by a second round in April and a third round had been planned before the now-outdated Sept. 30 deadline.

It appeared the approach was to blanket the nation with information on the independent foreclosure review process.

“Advertising has run in more than 1,400 publications nationwide that cover a wide range of demographics, including major publications like Parade, People magazine, and USA Weekend, as well as Hispanic and African-American publications,” a June report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency states.